Edwardian Aquamarine & Pearl Cluster Ring

A stunning early 20th-century aquamarine and split pearl cluster ring. At its centre rests a beautifully faceted oval aquamarine, its crystalline blue surrounded by a halo of luminous split pearls, all nestled within a warm gold setting.
 
The aquamarine possesses a delicate hue, shifting between glacial blue and the palest wash of an open summer sky. Light travels effortlessly through the stone, illuminating its facets and giving it an almost liquid quality. Encircling it, the softly glowing pearls appear like tiny droplets gathered around a pool of clear blue water. Aquamarine has long been associated with the sea, its name deriving from the Latin aqua marina, meaning “water of the sea”, while pearls have for centuries been entwined with ideas of love and devotion.
 
The beautifully detailed gold setting completes the design, its graceful shoulders unfurling from the central cluster like leaves around a flower. Like sunlight dancing upon still water, this enchanting antique ring captures a fleeting moment of beauty from a bygone age.
 
 
“So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.”
 
~  Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse